UPDATE “An AMBER Alert is now CANCELLED for a missing 2-month-old girl per the #SandySpringsPolice,” NCMEC posted on Facebook Thursday. “The child is SAFE. No further information will be released at this time.” Initial Coverage A Levi’s Call, Georgia’s version of an Amber Alert, has been issued for a 2-month-old girl believed abducted early Wednesday …
Two people have been charged with killing a child in north Alabama. Little information is available, but Mason John Grimes, 36, and Brooklyn Paige Posey Grimes, 31, were booked Wednesday afternoon on charges of intentional murder, felony murder, and child abuse of a child under 15, according to jail records. WBRC reported that the victim …
A South Carolina sheriff’s deputy who was fired last week in the midst of a domestic violence investigation was charged in the incident on Wednesday by state authorities. Former Florence County deputy Treyvon Sellers, 29, faces third degree domestic violence and breach of peace charges in the July 25 incident in neighboring Darlington County, WMBF …
A Las Vegas man was arrested Tuesday for an incident earlier this month in which he shot at a car carrying his girlfriend’s mother and brother 25 times. Darius Higuera, 24, has been charged with three counts of attempted murder and 27 counts of discharging a gun at or into an occupied vehicle or structure, …
California investigators arrested 14 sex buyers and rescued 10 victims — one of them a 16-year-old girl — this past weekend at the San Diego Comic-Con Convention. “Unfortunately, sex traffickers capitalize on large scale events such as Comic-Con to exploit their victims for profit,”said California Attorney General Rob Bonta in a statement. “These arrests send …
Denver police are investigating a Colorado college professor for the deaths of his wife and 2-month-old daughter. Denver police said Regis University professor Nicholas Myklebust, 44, called 911 just before 7 a.m. Monday and reported that he’d “found his wife on the ground bleeding and their infant daughter not breathing.” Police arrived on scene and …
A 35-year-old Georgia woman found dead in the backseat of a car at an Atlanta transit station earlier this month was shot to death. Fulton County Medical Examiner ruled Chanell Crosby’s death to be a homicide, WXIA reported. Crosby, whose 13-year-old son Jamiren was shot to death in a still-unsolved murder in 2022, was last …
A former ballerina was convicted of manslaughter Tuesday night in the shooting death of her husband. Ashley Benefield faces up to 30 years when she is sentenced, ABC News reported. Benefield took the stand Monday morning at her trial in Manatee County, Florida, testifying that she was “scared to death” of Doug Benefield and was …
A Utah man was arrested after an investigation uncovered hundred of images and videos of child pornography. An affidavit filed with the arrest of 43-year-old Justin McKay Anthony says that the investigation began in early May when the National Center for Missing Exploited Children submitted a referral about an upload of a “child exploitation video,” …
Los Angeles County’s district attorney announced charges against a man who reported his 15-year-old daughter missing only to have her turn up a week later outside a television station. Jeffery Chao was arrested last week by Monterey Park Police and charged with conspiracy, child abduction, and falsifying a police report in the “disappearance of Alison …
A Maryland woman was killed Sunday when she tried to stop a man from stealing her car at a convenience store in Sterling, Virginia. A criminal complaint says that Melody Waldecker, 54, left her car running when she stopped at the 7-Eleven in the Town Center at Sterling shopping center just after 11:30 a.m., the …
Six people were arrested Tuesday on child molestation charges following a months-long investigation by multiple Georgia law enforcement agencies. The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office said it executed search warrants at a home in Winder early Tuesday morning and took the six people into custody at four separate locations elsewhere in Georgia. The sheriff’s office said …
